29 You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light.

Other Translations of 2 Samuel 22:29

King James Version

29 For thou art my lamp, lamp: or, candle O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.

English Standard Version

29 For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.

The Message

29 Suddenly, God, your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness.

New King James Version

29 "For You are my lamp, O Lord; The Lord shall enlighten my darkness.

New Living Translation

29 O Lord, you are my lamp. The Lord lights up my darkness.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:29

Chapter Contents

David's psalm of thanksgiving.

This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.